They further concluded that red pandas separated from the ancestor of today’s raccoons and coatis a few million years later, some 10 million years before giant pandas diverged from the other bears.

大意：“他们进一步推断：red pandas 是在几百万年后从现在的raccoons 和 coatis 的祖先分化出来的，时间大致先于大熊猫从其它熊分化出来约1千万年。”